1. PART A: What is the primary tone of the narrator throughout the story? A. intense anger B. frantic despair C. cold indifference D. excited curiosity 2. PART B: Which TWO phrases from the text best support the answer to Part A? A. "Why does one love?" (Paragraph 2) B. "She was buried! Buried! She! In that hole!" (Paragraph 7) C. "I stopped short in front of that looking glass in which she had so often been reflected." (Paragraph 9) D. "I waited, clinging to the stem, like a shipwrecked man does to a plank." (Paragraph 15) E. "The dead man also read what was inscribed on his tombstone." (Paragraph 20)

PART A: B. frantic despair PART B: B. "She was buried! Buried! She! In that hole!" and C. "I stopped short in front of that looking glass in which she had so often been reflected." (Paragraph 9)

Explanation:

The question is from Was it a Dream? by Guy de Maupassant. The entire story is focused on a man's suffering and grief over the death of his beloved. Throughout the story, he is seen remembering her and the time he spent with her. He is in a constant state of grief, hopelessness and despair. He feels lost, shocked and confused about his beloved's untimely death. He expresses his confusion over her death in the words, "And then she died. How? I do not know; I no longer know anything."

In the sentence, "I stopped short in front of that looking glass in which she had so often been reflected." the main character describes what he feels when he looks into a mirror his beloved used. He describes it as an empty, lifeless piece of glass that held her in entirety, "Oh! The recollection! Sorrowful mirror, burning mirror, horrible mirror, to make men suffer such torments!